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Location:

Westminster,CO,USA

Member Since:

Nov 11, 2009

Gender:

Male

Goal Type:

Other

Running Accomplishments:

Finally started learning how to run in '09 after totally botching it up for the 14 years prior and dealing with chronic IT injury...have had zero IT band pain since fall of '09 and have run way more than ever before in my life...loving it.

PR's

Road Mile: 4:44 - Pearl St Mile August 2011 

2K: 6:32 - Uni HIll 2K 2011

3K: 10:07 - West end 3K 2011

5K - 16:53 - Turkey Leg 5K 2011

10K - 38:38 - Butte to Butte Eugene OR 2003 

Half - Never raced a half

Road Marathon - 2:57:19 - 11/12/2011 - solo.

Trail Marathon - 4:48 - Kings peak August 2011

55K - 4:59:54 - Moab red hot 55K 2011

Short-Term Running Goals:

Be healthy, run injury-free, listen to my body.

Sub 16 min 5K

Sub 34 min 10K

Sub 2:40 Marathon

    2012 Tentative Schedule

  1.  Quicker Quaker 5K January
  2. Boston Marathon - April
  3. ??

Long-Term Running Goals:

Get stronger, faster and more fit as a runner and biker to allow for bigger adventures as the years go on.

Still be running in my 80's.  

Personal:

I'm married to Nan Kennard and she kicks my butt at running.  She has beat me handily in every race we have done together except for a downhill mile we did once.  She is my running inspiration.  I'd like to run a marathon with her someday and actually keep up.  

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Miles:This week: 0.00 Month: 0.00 Year: 0.00
Bare Feet Lifetime Miles: 282.68
Cycling 2011 Lifetime Miles: 291.40
Altra Instinct July '10 Lifetime Miles: 637.35
Altra Instinct Sep '11 Lifetime Miles: 481.45
Altra Lone Peak Lifetime Miles: 157.50
Altra Instinct Black Lifetime Miles: 69.00
Altra Adam Lifetime Miles: 27.50
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
53.000.004.000.0057.00
Bare Feet Miles: 8.50NB MT101 - Green 11 Miles: 40.50NB MT101 - Black 11.5 Miles: 8.00
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00Weight: 0.00
Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
8.000.000.000.008.00

Easy 8 miler with Nan up lehigh street, across to lower bluestem, home on marshall with a mile of barefoot at the end on the bike path.

Bare Feet Miles: 1.00NB MT101 - Green 11 Miles: 7.00
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00Weight: 0.00
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8.500.002.000.0010.50

Did my first speed workout in about 3+ weeks.  It felt hard.  Man, when I don't run fast for a while, even just a few weeks, and then I go back to it, the heart and legs seem to not like it so much.  But if I do it consistently, I find that I crave the periodic speed/hard doses.  And they don't hurt so bad.

 It probably didn't help that I miscalculated my pace on all my splits.

I was going to do 8 x 400 on the path.  I started out and did the first one in 1:06.  Thinking to myself that was 76 seconds.  Oops!  I then proceeded to think 1:06 meant 76 seconds on all the subsequent repeats.  So I was getting more and more annoyed and feeling out of shape that I wasn't able to hit 76 second quarter mile repeats.  I kept coming short of the quarter mile in the 76 seconds.

 Afterward on my cool down it finally dawned on me.  

Then I felt like a total math whiz!  

Then I didn't feel so bad about my fitness after all.  My actual pace on all the repeats ranged between 4:45 to 5:15 per mile (some up hill, some down hill).  So I wasn't as bad off as I assumed, that's actually right where I expected to be. 

10.5 miles total - 1:20 total time.  a few hundred feet vert, tops. 

On a side note, Brian Beckstead was in town today, and at Nan's request, dropped her off a pair of Altras.  And now I'm SUPER jealous of her.  Those things look awesome!  I can see now jun why you are continually going off about them.  I wish I was elite so they would give me a free pair too!  Or I wish they actually had them in stock so I could actually buy a pair.  They look like pretty sweet running shoes to me. 

NB MT101 - Green 11 Miles: 10.50
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00Weight: 0.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
7.000.000.000.007.00

Easy 7 ish miles.  Up past fairview, n. shanahan to mesa and back down.

A little over an hour,  ~1000' vert.

NB MT101 - Green 11 Miles: 7.00
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00Weight: 0.00
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16.000.000.000.0016.00

In honor of the first mountain stage of the tour de france I decided to go ride my bike up a bunch of mountains.

Just kidding.  While I do love riding a bike of any variety, I couldn’t bring myself to spend the 3.5 hours this morning riding when I could spend it running over a few peaks.  I wish I had time to be bike and run a few hours a day…but alas, I have to choose at this point.  I still love watching the Tour de France though.  More this year than ever before since I just visited France and rode on many of the routes and mountains they are riding this year.

Today, being the first stage of that variety actually.  They climbed the tourmalet today, which we also climbed in May.  So I was pretty eager to watch the stage today.  The crowds were slightly bigger for them than when we were there.  Here we are standing at the top of the climb after riding it.  It was very similar conditions as the tour stage today with clouds at the top, but the clouds parted for us.  As you can see, there weren’t many people cheering us on at the top, as compared to today when the summit had thousands of people lined up all over the place.

Nan, Me, Matt and Ashley (my sis. and bro-in-law)

Within minutes of getting to the top, Jurgen Van Den Broeck showed up.  He couldn’t quite hold our pace as it turned out, so we beat him to the top.  But here he is pictured, in one of his training rides on the TDF route.  We chatted with him and his manager briefly.

On the stage today it was cool to see Frank Schleck attack the leaders today looking strong.  I like watching Frank and Andy.  Bummer about Radioshack all being pretty much beat down and crashed out of this years tour at this point.  It would be a total miracle if Levi or Kloden made it back to the podium at this point…not happening.

Anyway, as for my morning run, I got in 3 summits up the aforementioned peaks, about 5000 feet of vert. and about 16 miles on the route that I ran.  Tons of fun.  Took it pretty easy and was out for about 3.5 hours leaving at 5:45.

There’s a lot to love and enjoy about July.  But two things high on the list are long mountain runs in 65-70 degree sunshine and the Tour de France.  Its slightly harder to get started working each day I have noticed though.  Oh well…work can wait until August.

Here are some pics from this am.

1.5 miles from home at the trailhead

Green Mountain summit marker

Green Mountain/boulder view from Bear peak

S. Boulder peak from Bear

NB MT101 - Green 11 Miles: 16.00
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00Weight: 0.00
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7.500.000.000.007.50

Easy barefoot cruise on the bike paths for about an hour.

Bare Feet Miles: 7.50
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00Weight: 0.00
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Track workout FAILURE.

Was going to do 7 or 8 x 800M today.

Didn't get around to making it to the track until 5:30 pm - it was about 88 degrees out, which felt fine to me actually.

After my warmup and strides I started doing the 800's.

2:36, 2:41, 2:38, 2:50.

After struggling hard to pull out a 2:50 on the 4th one, I called it quits.  I was feeling kind of crappy, lacking motivation or energy to continue doing more of those.  And it was clear I should stop when it was hurting to pull out a 2:50.

I feel like I should have no problem doing 8 of those at 2:36-2:38 right now.  So I was kind of bummed about not feeling it.  But its just a day.  I'll hit the track again Tuesday and hopefully feel better. 

8 miles total. 

 

NB MT101 - Black 11.5 Miles: 8.00
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00Weight: 0.00
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Easy MilesMarathon Pace MilesThreshold MilesVO2 Max MilesTotal Distance
53.000.004.000.0057.00
Bare Feet Miles: 8.50NB MT101 - Green 11 Miles: 40.50NB MT101 - Black 11.5 Miles: 8.00
Night Sleep Time: 0.00Nap Time: 0.00Total Sleep Time: 0.00Weight: 0.00
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